You know the weak side of her character, and may imagine the sentiments and expressions which were torturing me.

She was in high spirits, and surrounded by those who were giving all the support of their own bad sense to her too lively mind.

I do not like Mrs.Fraser.She is a cold-hearted, vain woman, who has married entirely from convenience, and though evidently unhappy in her marriage, places her disappointment not to faults of judgment, or temper, or disproportion of age, but to her being, after all, less affluent than many of her acquaintance, especially than her sister, Lady Stornaway, and is the determined supporter of everything mercenary and ambitious, provided it be only mercenary and ambitious enough.

I look upon her intimacy with those two sisters as the greatest misfortune of her life and mine.

They have been leading her astray for years.